Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the